Description This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft.
The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing.
Rather than attempt to delimit what constitutes so-called faith-based aid and institutions or to reify the concept of the state, they seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized--at times on behalf of the state--to govern populations and their prac.
University Of New Mexico Press Published In A Governing gifts: faith, charity, and the security state, paperback/erica caple james
